Jewelry Television (JTV) is seeking jewelry designers for its national competition. The competition is called JTV’s Rock Star Designer Contest. It is open to the public for entries from now through April 30, 2015.
Read more...March 30, 2015

Michaels has partnered with Creativebug for online arts and crafts classes. Michaels says there are classes for both beginners and enthusiast crafters with more advanced skills.
Read more...March 6, 2015

An unusual festival held in Australia celebrates the refrigerator. It is called the Darwin Fridge Festival. The refrigerators at the festival are not your ordinary white fridges. They are highly decorative. People are invited to participate in the event by painting, decorating and even sculpting fridges. The event was created by Darwin Community Arts in 2010.
Read more...December 7, 2014

This video shows you how to draw Olaf from Disney's hit movie, Frozen. Character artist Brian James Fichtner provides the step-by-step lesson in this video from Disney Parks. Fichtner says Olaf's head is shaped somewhat like Piglet's head. Olaf has one big mouth and oval eyes with circular pupils. His eyebrows are triangular wedges. Olaf has four strands of hair (twigs).
Read more...May 17, 2014

Future plc has announced plans to launch a U.S. edition of Mollie Makes magazine, called Mollie Makes U.S. Edition. The magazine will debut on April 29, 2014. Katherine Stevenson is the magazine's editor-in-chief.
Read more...April 7, 2014

Grant Thomspon, The King of Random, explains how to make an edible Apple Swan in this video and this article on Instructables. The article and video shows why it helps to have a couple extra butter knives when cutting apple wedges.
Read more...March 31, 2014

Cricut has announced the launch of its latest design product, Cricut Explore. Cricut says the system is designed to be the "world's easiest design-and-cut system" for making polished DIY projects. It includes a cutting machine and online design software. The software includes a library of 50,000 images and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects.
Read more...January 23, 2014